[MR] Dec. 4 is St. Barbara's feast day!

[Karen Setze]

given the St. Barbara reliquary challenge, it seemed suitable to note that today (Dec. 4) is St. Barbara's feast day. Here are some tidbits from the Medieval Saints email list:

St. Barbara, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers
Beheaded by her father c.235 at Nicomedia during the persecution of
Maximinus of Thrace; relics at Burano, Italy, and Kiev, Russia 
Commemorated December 4; removed from revised Roman calendar and
cultus suppressed in 1969 

Patronage: against death by artillery, against explosions, against
fire, against impenitence, against lightning, against mine collapse,
against storms, ammunition magazines, ammunition workers, architects,
armourers, artillery, artillerymen, boatmen, bomb technicians, brass
workers, brewers, builders, carpenters, construction workers, dying
people, explosives workers, fire, fire prevention, firefighters,
fireworks, fireworks manufacturers, fortifications, founders,
geologists, gravediggers, gunners, hatmakers, hatters, lightning,
mariners, martyrs, masons, mathematicians, military engineers,
milliners, miners, ordnance workers, prisoners, safety from storms,
sailors, saltpetre workers, smelters, stone masons, stonecutters,
storms, sudden death, Syria, tilers, warehouses, watermen 

In art, she is shown as a crowned woman with a chalice; cannon; palm
of martyrdom; princess in a tower with either the palm of martyrdom or
chalice of happy death; tower; woman holding a tower or feather; woman
trampling a Saracen 

Lady Yseulte Trevelyn